I crashed into a tree yesterday. I am now wondering if I could have avoided it.
Safe scenario, large soccer playground sports empty area, surrounded by trees - reasonably far. Quite strong wind but UAV forecast says 22kmh so I decide to fly, keeping it very close to me. Altitude 10m only (30 feet). Some wobbling but hovering ok. GPS mode. I wanted to try follow-me mode, hence 10m.
I can configure the intelligent mode, plenty of time hovering in place. After playing around for a while with follow me, where it's all good, I notice drone is drifting away slightly, try to correct manually. I notice it's not enough, despite moving right stick as if in full speed ahead, still drifting slowly. Immediately start descent, down to 5 or 6m, but no speed decrease at all, rather acceleration. Trees are getting closer and closer. Crash is imminent, so I stop motors by pushing down left stick completely, hoping that will minimize damage. Drone hits ground from approx 4m height, I fail to catch it with one hand only, to not break my phone and remote as well.
Did descending contributed to the crash? As it lowers the rotors spinning speed, it's less powerful to fight the wind. Should I have tried to move sideways, or even increase altitude instead? Has anyone had experience on this?
PS: bird's got some serious scratches but seems to be working fine (cam, gimball, motors etc.) A miracle! Have not flown again yet, waiting for the wind to calm down.
Safe scenario, large soccer playground sports empty area, surrounded by trees - reasonably far. Quite strong wind but UAV forecast says 22kmh so I decide to fly, keeping it very close to me. Altitude 10m only (30 feet). Some wobbling but hovering ok. GPS mode. I wanted to try follow-me mode, hence 10m.
I can configure the intelligent mode, plenty of time hovering in place. After playing around for a while with follow me, where it's all good, I notice drone is drifting away slightly, try to correct manually. I notice it's not enough, despite moving right stick as if in full speed ahead, still drifting slowly. Immediately start descent, down to 5 or 6m, but no speed decrease at all, rather acceleration. Trees are getting closer and closer. Crash is imminent, so I stop motors by pushing down left stick completely, hoping that will minimize damage. Drone hits ground from approx 4m height, I fail to catch it with one hand only, to not break my phone and remote as well.
Did descending contributed to the crash? As it lowers the rotors spinning speed, it's less powerful to fight the wind. Should I have tried to move sideways, or even increase altitude instead? Has anyone had experience on this?
PS: bird's got some serious scratches but seems to be working fine (cam, gimball, motors etc.) A miracle! Have not flown again yet, waiting for the wind to calm down.